Google is ready to pay 80 billion in cash for Motorola's Mobility. Both companies agree on the deal, hoping to be carried out around the turn.

 

 

Motorola Mobility produces mobile phones and set-top boxes. Google knows the company well, as long as Motorola used the Android operating system.

We anticipate that this combination offers new possibilities for the Android ecosystem. But our vision for Android as an open platform is solid, says Andy Rubin, vice president of Google's mobile operations, said in a statement.

The purchase is approved by both companies' boards. And Google expects that the transaction will be completed in late 2011 or early 2012.

Motorola, which once belonged to the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer, had only a 2.1 percent share of world markets during the second quarter of 2011. Thus placed the company in eighth place. Long after Nokia of 23 percent and Samsung at 16 percent. But before Huawei and Sony Ericsson with shares of 2.1 and 1.7 percent.

According to Carolina Milanesi, an analyst at Gartner, it's not just mobile operations that Google is interested, but perhaps primarily the business of surf boards.

Google has been pretty hard to compete with Apple in the case of tablets. Therefore, it is mainly the part that Google is interested. With the purchase, they can become more stable and easier to take up the struggle, she says.

HTC, Samsung, Motorola and Sony Ericsson all use the operating system on mobile devices and has become an increasingly important part in the competition against Apple's iPhone. Some of the manufacturers have even surf boards with the operating system.

The idea of Android will be an open system remains. But it is likely that Motorola will first despite improvements in the company now buys Motorola's mobile business. This need not be negative for the other manufacturers. In the fight against Apple, this may rather mean that improvements can be delivered more quickly, she says.